Let's not mistake anything Elmo is doing with Twitter to be part of any 'plan'. He was forced into a choice to either complete the purchase that he didn't want to do and was just playing games with - or going to court and having something come out during discovery that was apparently to his mind awful enough that throwing away 44B on a company he can't run was the better choice. It's no coincidence he did a 180 and rushed the acquisition a week before discovery was supposed to start - one of his legal team undoubtedly pointed something out to him that made him shit a Falcon Heavy sized brick.

Tesla and SpaceX were both innovators in their field so their staff was willing to put up with more horseshit (i.e. Musk) to work in those spaces, and had time to build a "Elmo" management team to keep him away from the sharp bits that might affect the companies, mainly funneling him into PR-style work to leverage his name back when the masses thought he was Tony Stark. Twitter was just a bogstandard FAANG tier tech company and expected to not have a toddler at the helm so none of those protective teams existed, and the staff had no incentive to put up with a moron as other companies would hire them easily, and so it goes. The only people left at Twitter ( X ) are largely the dregs who aren't able to find jobs elsewhere easily. There's no 'plan' to kill the company here, it's just an inevitable outcome of someone taking over a company that requires skill and experience to run it properly, and Musk has neither in any useful quantity.

Twitter will die, and something else will take its place. Or several somethings. Twitter created a need for a something like that and nature abhors a vacuum, so when it goes away for good, that space will get filled somehow. And for The Sauds and anyone else looking to silence that sort of voice, that's bad news because before they just had to block Twitter during bad things. Now there's a hundred different social medias that people will scatter to, and some of those will be under the radar for too long for those looking to censor it.

> I think that a lot of panels that are "used up" for commercial payback, might still be good enough for off-grid buyers.

They very much are. "Used up" in that context means their rated power has dropped 25-30%. Which means they still produce 70-75% of the power they did when they were new - and that drops by ~1% per year on average for most panels, meaning these 'used up' panels can still produce worthwhile amounts of power if deployed in sufficient numbers for a few decades yet. There's definitely secondary market demand for them in places where space to mount them isn't a concern. Obviously you want to deploy the most efficient panels for the money if you only have a few hundred square feet of area to place them or if you're boat/vehicle mounting them, but if you've got thousands of square feet of land to put up cheap as chips used panels and build a few kilowatts of power gathering, why not?

And yet they were caught because they were too dumb to leave their portable tracking devices at home....

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"Greenwood and Crahan were identified as suspects because location data showed cellphones linked to them to be in the vicinity of all four incidents, FBI Special Agent Mark Tucher wrote in the complaint."

They don't. They have a self reporting organization that "fixes" the problem by placing the person's name on a list that is checked against large wins and if their name has been self-submitted, then the casino doesn't need to award them their winnings. The idea is if they voluntarily submit to the list it disincentiveizes gambling as they cannot win big any more. In reality they play cash or chips on smaller amounts at a time that won't be subject to the list being checked for cashout.

If rsilvergun knows of any recent changes to that, I'd be interested to know, but everything I've searched still only turns up voluntary reporting, though there's a "diversion" program for treating gambling addition if it's discovered to be the root of a crime to feed it. There's nothing I can see on the books preventing someone from walking in and gambling every last nickel a person has if they want to.

> First, the libertarian ideal isn't about distrust of institutions. In particular, it's never been about distrust of corporations; it's about limiting the role of government to what is absolutely necessary, nothing more.

The problem is that is HIGHLY open to interpretation. Which explains why every "Libertarian town" experiment fails, usually in spectacular fashion.

Funnily enough I've noticed in my personal circles a direct correlation between smoking and being a salt shaker aficionado. I'd draw a presumption that the people who salt the crap out of their food do it because their smoking has killed their taste buds compared to nonsmokers, so the death rate increase probably has at least a bit to do with the cancer sticks.

> Oh please. Tell that to the people living around Fukushima or Chernobyl.

So... one plant run by cheapskates who didn't update a tired design even when warned of design problems, and the other run about as well as Russia runs anything, including their current incursion.

How about you do the other 450 reactors around the world and tell us what horrors those have spawned? What's that? They haven't? Fancy that.

Now, how about you look at the downwind cancer rates around all the coal plants - you DO know that burning coal releases radioactive particles right?

Nuclear when done even marginally well is safe.

You do know that once cancer gets to a certain stage it no longer stays IN the organ it originated, right? Metastatic cancer is everywhere in the body and can't be stopped by an organ swap at that point.

120 million doses a year, 3 doses per person, 40 million vaccinated a year. That's helpful but still a drop in the bucket in a country with more than a billion people. If they can scale up by a factor of 10 or more that would be a lot better.

Someone emailed Gabe Newell about the storage and he replied that all 3 models just use 2230 form factor drives so if you get the 64 GB version and want more storage you can just pull out the eMMC 64 GB drive and slap as big a 2230 as you can find in it instead.

The proper way to do renewable electricity is with a combination of solar, wind and hydro. Hydro should be used to fill in the gaps that the other two leave when it's dark/the wind isn't blowing. People keep talking about "storage" for excess solar and wind, the trick is to size them so that at peak the two combined are doing close to 100% of your generation needs so that your hydro dam is only used 30% of the time at capacity over a 24 hour period instead of the previous full-throttle-all-the-time and the dam BECOMES your already-built battery.

30 GRAND? What the hell are you cooling, a warehouse? Here in Canada where everything is more expensive than the US for crap like that it's only about 5-6 grand to do a heat pump retrofit for a 2500 sq ft house. I know this because my cousin just did theirs last year. And a condo can be done for around 3 grand.

You still "win" more than those people using a baseboard heater as a massive resistor to heat their place. Especially if you're both using the same dirty electricity because the heat pump will use a lot less of it to heat the same amount.

??? What does Google have to do with this other than it was their message that happened to be injected by the carrier? Are you suggesting they buy the Australian wireless service and fire everyone who had anything to do with this as an object lesson to others? Because that's about all they could do.

Let's go ask the guys on Venus if runaway greenhouse effect is a myth. Oh.. wait....